An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

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

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

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.