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

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

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

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

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

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.

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

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

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

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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