A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

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

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

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

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