Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

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

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

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

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

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

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

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

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

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