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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

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

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.