Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

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

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

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

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.

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

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft perfume fragrances.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A German artist built a home and garden filled with whimsical art pieces, like a massive, operational volcano.

These pink granite water slides are the result of millions of years of erosion.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

The oldest building in Vancouver's Chinatown is now home to one of Canada’s largest contemporary art collections.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.

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

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

This iconic fortress was once the crown jewel of Haiti's national defense.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.