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

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

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

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

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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