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

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

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

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

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

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

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

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

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.