Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

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