Few San Francisco buildings are as (in)famous around the world as the Millennium Tower. Most of the tilting building’s current homeowners are in the middle of suing the city and the developer. But even with the bad press, some intrepid buyers have invested in the building anyway.

This gorgeous one-bed, two-bath condo with the Art Deco decorator sold last year for $1.9 million just four months before the building’s foundation woes made headlines. Now the owners hope to put that unfortunate timing behind them with a new $2.19 million listing of their own.

It’s not everywhere in San Francisco these days that eager buyers can net a two-bed, two-bath condo for a mere $338K.

While it’s tough to buy in SoMa these days, right on the corner of Mission and 10th Street, this place at 1400 Mission is a BMR unit priced for buyers making the precise Area Median Income.

Because only a select few buyers can even consider such listings, BMR units don’t normally feature on Curbed SF. But with the 14-Mission being a workhorse of the working class for decades, it’s only appropriate to consider that the city is trying to keep at least some of the nearby housing stock in play for such buyers.

And speaking of the divide between the attainable and the elusive, further north from this contemporary building at 3184 Mission you’d never net a two-bed, two-bath Mission condo for less than $1 million.

And even in this case, just south of Cesar Chavez and on the verge of crossing over into Bernal Heights, such a property is still gunning for $995K. Although at least that’s still within shouting distance of the $940K sale price from 2014.

The staggered way this 2006 building unfolds along the street like a sequence of paper dolls being unfolded might be accidental—got to make room for all of those bay windows, after all—but if so it’s at least a happy accident.

Is there something particular about the 14 line that keeps nearby home prices pushed just under seven figures?

Whether by design or happy accident, $995K is the magic number when catering to homes along this transit corridor. And following the route down into the Excelsior yields a rare beauty at 275 London, a three-bed, two-bath 1912 Edwardian with white fish-scale shingles.

Note that this place hasn’t seen a major renovation or remodel in over 30 years, which means that it’s the real deal for less than $1 million—with a lifeline to the rest of the city right around the corner to boot.

At the end of the line, reaching near the junction where Mission terminates near John Daly Boulevard in Daly City itself, we come across this traditional home at 141 Hillside Boulevard.

This three-bed, one-bath, roughly 1,100-square-foot house has a decidedly un-San Francisco asking price of $899K.

The ad for this 1945 home (which set its asking price at almost exactly the sum it last sold for in 2009) pushes its “hardwood throughout, marble fireplace mantle,” and granite counters, but maybe the knowledge that a singular path through San Francisco’s ever-changing cultural identity ends—and begins—just a few blocks away marks its real appeal.