The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.