Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

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

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

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

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

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

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.