San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

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

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

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

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.