This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

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.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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