A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The simple auditorium that launched a pop icon's career into the stratosphere.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

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

The helicopter that "Tricky Dick" absconded from the White House in on his last day in office.

Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Oldest building in California still in use.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.