The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

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

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

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

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

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.