The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

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

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

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

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

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

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

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.