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The park's light restrictions help ensure epic night sky views.

Okeechobee, Florida

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park

Florida's first Dark Sky Park is a haven for wildlife and stargazers.

In Partnership With Experience Kissimmee
Rock Springs Run winds through a lush segment of semi-tropical forest.

Apopka, Florida

Rock Springs

Approximately 65,000 gallons of crystal clear water pour out of this headspring every minute.

The floral clock is 50 feet across.

Orlando, Florida

Harry P. Leu Gardens

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

LCT was best known for his work with stained glass.

Winter Park, Florida

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art

An Orlando museum houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of work by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Prometheus Esoterica

Winter Park, Florida

Prometheus Esoterica

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

Blue Springs emits 38 million gallons of water daily.

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Blue Springs Heritage Center

The largest spring in Northwest Arkansas is also home to a sprawling botanical gardens and a historically significant bluff.

Bachman-Wilson House

Bentonville, Arkansas

Bachman-Wilson House

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

'Gods and Goddesses of Baseball'

San Francisco, California

'Gods and Goddesses of Baseball'

A modern frieze of ancient Grecian mythological figures playing a national pastime.

You can make out individual letters and portions of words.

San Francisco, California

Buena Vista Park Tombstones

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

The Pressroom and Mercantile at The Box SF.

San Francisco, California

The Box SF-Historic Pressroom and Mercantile

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

The mysterious Dentzel goat

San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Park Vintage Carousel

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

Village

Berkeley, California

Thornburg Village

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Mescaline Grove

San Francisco, California

Mescaline Grove

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Vintage illustration of the Midwinter Exposition

San Francisco, California

Site of the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition

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

Selection of Exhibits at the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents (photo by Joel Bernstein)

Berkeley, California

Aftel Archive of Curious Scents

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

Nepenthes pitcher plants - beautiful killers

San Francisco, California

San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Beach Chalet WPA Murals

San Francisco, California

Beach Chalet WPA Murals

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

William Westerfeld House

San Francisco, California

William Westerfeld House

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

View of Alden Park from the bandstand, showing polaris missile.

Vallejo, California

Alden Park

The perfect spot for a picnic, right next to a giant ballistic missile.

The Tonga Room's pool.

San Francisco, California

The Tonga Room

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The Giant Camera Obscura in 2014

San Francisco, California

Camera Obscura & Holograph Collection

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

View of the ruins from the hillside. The original stairs would have come down on the far left. The curved edge of the original aquarium and the outline of the diving well are on the right.

San Francisco, California

Ruins of the Sutro Baths

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

SS Ohioan Runs Aground

San Francisco, California

The Shipwrecks at Land's End

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

Musée Mécanique

San Francisco, California

Musée Mécanique

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

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