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

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

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

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

The oldest alley in San Francisco is paved with a reminder of the city's original shoreline.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

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

The lesser-known Alice sculpture of Central Park dedicated to the “godmother of American children.”

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

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.