The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

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

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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

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

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

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.