After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.