The last remaining houses of a bygone world immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novel “Cannery Row.”

A historic office and commercial building located in the heart of downtown San Francisco.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

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

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

A moai decorated with the depiction of a European ship.

The original home of the Caesar Salad.

The museum within the Kom-Ombo Temple complex houses mummified crocodiles and mummified crocodile eggs.

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

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

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

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

This iron building in the Amazon allegedly shares an architect with the Eiffel Tower.

This metal tower in the desert provides views of a handful of Nazca geoglyphs.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

A monument to the conquistador became increasingly controversial in the very city that he founded.