Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

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

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.