A Roman holiday is closer than you think when you use this 1916 staircase inspired by Rome's Piazza di Spagna.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Ride on a fully-restored Nike nuclear-tipped missile elevator from the Cold War.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

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

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

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

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

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

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

One of the last Depression-era bandshells still standing was the site of Elvis Presley’s first live concert.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.