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

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

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

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

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

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

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

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

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

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.