Half of a house.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

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

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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

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

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

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

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.