This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

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.

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

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

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.