After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

Built in the 1920s, this co-op in the Bronx feels more like an Italian villa than a typical New York apartment building.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

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

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

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

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

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

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.