A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

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

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

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

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

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