The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.