This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

This gallery is home to everything from antiques, to ancient tribal masks.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, never been to New York.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.