Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

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

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

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