Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

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

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

Russian history in San Francisco.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

At this Oaxaca contest, artists turn purple produce into stunning depictions of saints, buildings, and La Pietà.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

England's "pier at the end of the universe" unites astronomy and contemporary architecture.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

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

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.