You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

Explore an underground labyrinth of miniature railroads.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Lombard Street may be more famous, but this is the real “crookedest street in the world.”

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

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.