A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

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

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

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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.