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America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

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

Half of a house.

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.