The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

A giant statue perched on dumpsters watches over the freeway.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.