A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

The yawning remains of a complex naval fortress still haunt this Australian shore.

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

It's said to be one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

Though considered an eyesore by some, this boxy Brutalist high-rise plays a significant role in Sydney's past.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

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

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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.

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

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

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

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

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.