Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

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

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

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

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

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.