An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

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

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

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

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

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

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

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

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

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.