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One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

This roadside wonder is as mysterious as it is beloved.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

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

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

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

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

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

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

The last used bookstore in Downtown San Francisco is one of the smallest bookstores just about anywhere.

A unique and poignant sidewalk mural commemorates the deaths of two striking workers.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.