This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

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

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.