This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

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

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Tombstones buried in overgrown grass mark the deceased occupants of this abandoned graveyard.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.