This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

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

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

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

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

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

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

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

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

Russian history in San Francisco.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

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

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

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

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

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