The "Little Ones," show Portugal in full miniature splendor.

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

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

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

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

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.