27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

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

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.