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

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

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

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.

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

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A four paneled, brightly multicolored mosaic adorns the side of this popular grocery store.

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

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.