Russian history in San Francisco.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Half of a house.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

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

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

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

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

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

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.