Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

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

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

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

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.