These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The longest continuously operating Elk's Lodge in the country.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

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

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

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

A defensive structure built during the Hundred Years War has remained useful in one way or another for nearly 700 years.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.