Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Antiques by the Bay.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.