Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

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

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

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

Perched high atop telephone poles is an uncanny outdoor art gallery that greets passersby on their commute.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.