9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

These massive concrete foundations and smelter chimney bricks still smell like smoke after a century.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

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

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Not your typical pet cemetery.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

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

Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.