Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

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

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

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

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

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

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

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

This Mediterranean castle was built for a millionaire and his giant dog.