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

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

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

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

Set sail on a small scale.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

How did a 154-foot-long piece of spacecraft wind up abandoned along the side of a Florida road?

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.