The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.