This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

Many people don't realize there’s a lot going on in—and below—the world’s tallest triumphal arch.

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver's oldest watering holes.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

This sacred cave temple is home to thousands of bats and according to legend, a giant snake king.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

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

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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