A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

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

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

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

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

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

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

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

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.