The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

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

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

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

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

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

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

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