Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The magic's in the hole!

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

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

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

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

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

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