A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

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

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

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

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

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.