Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

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.

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.

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

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

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.