At one of the nation’s longest-running professional theaters, the audience used to barter for tickets with produce and livestock.

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

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

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

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Asheville, North Carolina, was the the second place in the world to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe.

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

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.

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

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.