A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

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

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

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

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.