Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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

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

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.