This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

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

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

Get a taste of Chamorro cuisine, family-style, at this popular restaurant.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

Stuck in the arcade of Casa Isolani are three arrows of mysterious origins.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

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

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

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

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.