Key Biscayne, Florida
Cape Florida Lighthouse
Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.
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Key Biscayne, Florida
Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.
Miami, Florida
This Miami cemetery holds the remains of two Cuban presidents, a Nicaraguan president, and the senior Desi Arnaz. And it was once the resting place of the crown prince of Spain.
Key Biscayne, Florida
It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.
Key Biscayne, Florida
A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.
Miami Beach, Florida
Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.
Rochester, New York
The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.
Rochester, New York
Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.
Rochester, New York
A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.
Rochester, New York
A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.
San Jose, California
This restaurant's marvelous musical machines include a self-playing violin.
San Jose, California
The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.
San Jose, California
An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.
San Francisco, California
The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.
San Francisco, California
America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.
San Francisco, California
Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.
San Francisco, California
This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.
San Francisco, California
Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.
San Francisco, California
The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.
San Francisco, California
An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.