A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

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

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

A bronze tribute to the wildly popular video game from the '90s.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.