An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

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

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

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

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

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

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

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.