Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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.

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

The timeworn "Yankee Stadium" of the fastest game in the world isn't going anywhere.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.