A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

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

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Russian history in San Francisco.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

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

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.