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An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

A modern frieze of ancient Grecian mythological figures playing a national pastime.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

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

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

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

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

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

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

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

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