Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

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

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

The remnants of a depressing public toilet are now a hub of ever evolving street art.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

The oldest public library in Ireland.