Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

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

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

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 gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.