A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A historic office and commercial building located in the heart of downtown San Francisco.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

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

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

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

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

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

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

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

California's largest steel arch bridge.