America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

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

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.