A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

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

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

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

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

This Western Australian mint was established during the height of the Australian gold rush.

A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?

This sculpture honors the legacy of Australia's now-defunct, Black Rock Stakes wheelbarrow race.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.