The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

Experience the glam side of air travel without leaving the ground at this speakeasy.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

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

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

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

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

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

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

Come for the records, stay for the retro pinball machines.