Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

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

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

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.