There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

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