Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

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