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This historic roadhouse has many tales to tell of San Francisco's early history.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

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

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

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

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

Lombard Street may be more famous, but this is the real “crookedest street in the world.”

Get a taste of Chamorro cuisine, family-style, at this popular restaurant.

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

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.

The larger of two volcanic peaks rising out of the crystalline waters of the Caribbean.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

On the side of Highway 50 East, between Carson City and Dayton, Nevada, sits a giant metal spider made from a vintage Volkswagen Beetle.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

The smallest country in the world.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.