Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

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

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

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

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

A large instrument played by the wind.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

This odd little museum holds exhibits on everything from blacksmith equipment to hair jewelry.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.