This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

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

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

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

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

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

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.