A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

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

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

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

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

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history, this memorial has faced its fair share of backlash.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.