These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.