Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

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

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

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

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.