The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

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

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.