Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

Overflowing with shipping containers, this location has been transformed into a massive workspace for artists.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

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

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

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

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

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

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

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