It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

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

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

A modern frieze of ancient Grecian mythological figures playing a national pastime.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

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

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

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

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Get a taste of Chamorro cuisine, family-style, at this popular restaurant.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

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

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

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

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