A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

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

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

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