Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

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

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.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

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

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.