A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.