From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

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

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

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The magic's in the hole!

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

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

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.