The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.

Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

A memorial dedicated to veterans of all wars especially those lost in Bataan defending the Philippines during World War II.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.