The longest continuously operating Elk's Lodge in the country.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The sprawling attraction boasts a collection of more than 150 historic wagons.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.