The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

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

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

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

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.