Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

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

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

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

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.