Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

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

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

Half of a house.

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

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

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

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.