Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

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

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

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

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

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

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.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.