The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

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

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

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

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.