A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

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

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.