San Diego, California
Star of India at The Maritime Museum of San Diego
The world’s oldest active sailing ship.
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San Diego, California
'The Girl in Red Shoes'
A statue based on a tragic Japanese nursery rhyme, commemorating San Diego's sisterhood with Yokohama.
San Diego, California
Mick Jagger's Urinal
The Gaslamp District's oldest bar sports a urinal marked with a golden plaque that was allegedly used by Mick Jagger.
San Diego, California
Panama-California Sculpture Court
A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.
San Diego, California
San Diego Chinese Historical Museum
This historic Chinese church was relocated and revived as a museum that preserves and celebrates Chinese art, history, and culture.
San Diego, California
Mushroom Beach House
A futuristic-looking beach house built for the owner of a snack food brand.
San Diego, California
Pearl of the Pacific
An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.
San Diego, California
Hotel del Coronado
L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.
San Diego, California
Spruce Street Suspension Bridge
An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.
San Diego, California
1895 Looff Carousel
One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.
San Francisco, California
Dutch Windmill
The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.
San Francisco, California
Golden Gate Park Bison
San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.
San Francisco, California
Uncle John's Tree at McLaren Lodge
San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.
San Francisco, California
Janis Joplin Tree
A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
San Francisco, California
Mescaline Grove
A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.
San Francisco, California
Heroes Grove Memorial
A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.
San Francisco, California
Portals of the Past
The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.
San Francisco, California
Arch of Colonial Trees
Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.
San Francisco, California
'Street Whale'
Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.
San Francisco, California
The Dore Vase
A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.
San Francisco, California
Drawn Stone
Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.
San Francisco, California
Three Gems
A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.
San Francisco, California
Faery Door
San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.
