A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

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

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

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

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

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

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.