Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

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

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

A colossal strolling Pinocchio that was greeted with more outrage than whimsy.

Despite the groans of archaeologists, this astounding groups of Bronze Age petroglyphs have been painted red for tourists.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.