A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

The classic Atari game's iconic aliens have invaded downtown San Diego.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

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

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

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.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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