Art and a pun, all in one.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

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

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

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

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

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

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

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

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

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.