This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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