This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

Annual convention held by the largest pyrotechnic community in the world.

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.