A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

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

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

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

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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.

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

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.