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This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

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

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

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

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Designed to allow funerals to proceed over the River Dulnain.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

This tiny business claims to be "the smallest pub on the planet."

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.