The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

Waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

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

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.