The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

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

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.