A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

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

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

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.