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

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

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

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

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

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

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Hidden inside a gift shop that doubles as a museum, this gargantuan yo-yo can only be operated by crane.

On the summer solstice each year, shadows align with a 14,000 square foot painting to reveal a secret message.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

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

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.