This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

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

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

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

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

Its most grisly object is a jar full of severed fingers allegedly cut off by prisoners to avoid work.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Flying high over the small island of Zákynthos is a giant tribute to the mainland.

Get hands on with the technological marvels of the Classical world.

These artifacts were discovered during the construction of the airport, with some dating back to the Neolithic period.

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.