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

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Russian history in San Francisco.

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

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

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

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

Here, Father Agapius Honcharenko established his homestead, becoming the first nationally conscious Ukrainian to settle in the United States.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.