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29.6912, -91.2097
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Paris, France
Montmartre Cemetery
A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.
48.8859, 2.3319
Paris, France
Paris Padlocks of Love
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
48.8578, 2.3374
Paris, France
Montparnasse Cemetery
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
48.8387, 2.3262
Paris, France
Centre Pompidou
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
48.8606, 2.3526
Alameda, California
St. George Spirits
One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.
37.7876, -122.3097
Las Vegas, Nevada
'Bliss Dance'
An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.
36.1036, -115.1747
San Francisco, California
450 Sutter Street
Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.
37.7897, -122.4078
San Francisco, California
The Tonga Room
Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.
37.7925, -122.4100
San Francisco, California
The Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.
37.8021, -122.4039
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's Cable Car Museum
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.
37.7945, -122.4114
San Francisco, California
Murphy Windmill
Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.
37.7650, -122.5087
San Francisco, California
Japanese Tea Garden
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
37.7702, -122.4702
San Francisco, California
Golden Gate Park Bison
San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.
37.7698, -122.4984
San Francisco, California
Aquatic Park Tombstones
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
37.8076, -122.4262
San Francisco, California
Alcatraz Island
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
37.8267, -122.4230
San Francisco, California
House of Air
Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.
37.8049, -122.4688
Sausalito, California
Marin Headlands
Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.
37.8339, -122.5329
Sausalito, California
Gates Co-op Houseboat Community
A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.
37.8730, -122.5036
Sausalito, California
The Bay Model
A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.
37.8635, -122.4949
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