Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

Locals call this magical moss-covered walkway the "Emerald Path."

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.