Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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.

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

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

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

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.