This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

An impressive armored bronze effigy marks the tomb of one of the medieval era's greatest warriors.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The Last Home of an Executed King.

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.