A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

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World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

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

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.