Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

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

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

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

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

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

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

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

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.