A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Lombard Street may be more famous, but this is the real “crookedest street in the world.”

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

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

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

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

This historic house was the birthplace and childhood home of the 35th president of the United States.