Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

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

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.