Scotland's first free lending library, which protects literacy through inheritance.

A giant pineapple, a symbol of hospitality, and an amazing vacation rental option.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

The oldest library in Scotland was built from the remains of a church to hold a churchman's library.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

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

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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

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

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

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

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

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

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.