Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

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

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

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

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

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

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

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

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

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