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

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

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

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Berlin's old airport.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

Antiques by the Bay.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.