A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

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

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest rotating world.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

The smallest country in the world.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.