Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

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

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.