The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

The art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

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

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

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

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.