An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

A bronze sculpture of Lenin’s likeness outside Havana surrounded by 12 human figures in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution.

The Cuban revolutionary looks over the country from its highest peak.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

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

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.