The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

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

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.