The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

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

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.