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

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.