A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A unique sculpture park that features the works of several famed artists.

A wonderous place devoted to art and metal.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

This small beach park is littered with a collection of unique driftwood sculptures.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.