San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

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

This bell stars in a tragic love tale and is said to make wishes come true.

London's largest outsider art museum.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.