A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

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

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

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

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

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.