Deep below the dry landscape of Bahia, a cave with intense blue water to float in.

Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.

The blowhole bursts spectacularly right next to the buildings in a medieval seaside town.

This popular cave pool is truly magical, despite the crowds.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

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

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

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.