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

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

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

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.