This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

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

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

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

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