A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Not to be confused with the iconic New York City skyscraper, this Chicago building is a vibrant hub for artists.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

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

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

A science teacher's dream.

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

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

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

A large circus museum with summer performances.

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

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

An otherwise quiet campground becomes a bustling medieval town for two weeks every year.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.