At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

On this stunning Scottish island, you can walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

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

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.