A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

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

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

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

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

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.