One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.