The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

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

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

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

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

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

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.