One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.