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

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

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

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

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

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