A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

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

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

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

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

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

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

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

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

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

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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).

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

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

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.