This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

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

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.