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

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

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.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."