A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

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

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

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

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

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

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

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

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

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

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