Places curiouser 54cc2706 Wants to Go

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

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

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

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

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

This bakery sits on the site of the Black Panther Party's first headquarters.

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

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

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

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.