A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

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

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

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

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