A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

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

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

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

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.