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Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

This tiny cottage surrounded by railroads is the oldest surviving structure in Fairmount Park.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

One of the oldest of its kind.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.