An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

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

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

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.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

Perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints, with a little help from Paris.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.