In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Half of a house.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

A large instrument played by the wind.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

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

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.