This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

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

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

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

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

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

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

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

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Antiques by the Bay.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.