A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

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

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

A museum filled with tiny, adorable versions of the mighty Royal Danish Navy.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.