Places Ancientproof Wants to Go

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

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.