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

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

This bronze statue was erected to honor a small Scottish town's beloved stray cat.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.