Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

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

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

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

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

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.