A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

A large instrument played by the wind.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

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

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

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

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.