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

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

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

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

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

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

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.