With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

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

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

This whimsically named Vietnamese stream is closer to a walkway than a waterway.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.