The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.