A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

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

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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.