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Golden Gate Park Diorama

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.
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Dutch Windmill

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.
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Golden Gate Park Bison

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.
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Portals of the Past

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.
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Research Departments, California Academy of Sciences

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.
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John McLaren Statue

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.
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Loved to Death

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.
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Buena Vista Park Tombstones

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.
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Dangling Legs at the Piedmont Boutique

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.
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The 'Full House' House

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.
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Church of 8 Wheels

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.
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1908 Cistern Circles

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.
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Paxton Gate

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

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.
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The Head of The Goddess of Progress

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

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”
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Benkyodo

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.
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The Last Standard Oil Company Gas Station in California

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.
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McElroy Octagon House

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.
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Vedanta Society's Old Temple

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.
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'Wood Line'

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.
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Palace of Fine Arts

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.