An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

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

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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.

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

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

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

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.