The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.