A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

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

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

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.