The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Definitely not a clown bar.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

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

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.