Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

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.

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

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

A Buddhist retreat built on more than 100 acres of California Redwood forest.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.