The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

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

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

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

The oldest alley in San Francisco is paved with a reminder of the city's original shoreline.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.