A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

Not one, but two of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpieces nestled on the same street.

A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

This bakery sits on the site of the Black Panther Party's first headquarters.

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

Thermal springs underneath the seabed provide the heat and bubbles for these beachside natural hot tubs.

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

These otherworldly caverns form Earth's oldest known cave system.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

These unconventional "tub boats" let locals row around the island's turbulent coast.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.