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

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

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

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

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

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

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

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

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