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

This restaurant's marvelous musical machines include a self-playing violin.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

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

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

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

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

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.