A library and museum dedicated to typography.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

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

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.