A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

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

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.