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jessicapriante

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The Museum of Tolerance is part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, California.

Los Angeles, California

Museum of Tolerance

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

Museum of Death

Los Angeles, California

The Museum of Death

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Concrete TV

Albany, California

Albany Bulb

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Winchester Mystery House, with some of its many doors and windows.

San Jose, California

The Winchester Mystery House

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The museum.
Permanently Closed

Felton, California

Bigfoot Discovery Museum

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

Santa Cruz Mystery Spot

Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz Mystery Spot

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Sam the Prisoner.

Folsom, California

Folsom Prison Museum

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

Mormon Island

Folsom, California

Mormon Island

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

Welcome to Rough and Ready!

Rough and Ready, California

Rough and Ready

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

Old St. Patrick's Cemetery

Grass Valley, California

Old St. Patrick's Cemetery

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

Bourn's clubhouse and one of the fountains

Grass Valley, California

Empire Mine State Park

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Urban Ore

Berkeley, California

Urban Ore

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Takara Sake Museum

Berkeley, California

Takara Sake Museum

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Alcatraz from the Bay 2012

San Francisco, California

Alcatraz Island

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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.

Audra Kunkle mounts some specimens in a workspace above the store.
Permanently Closed

San Francisco, California

Loved to Death

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The cemetery in 2014

San Francisco, California

Presidio Pet Cemetery

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Mission Dolores Cemetery

San Francisco, California

Mission Dolores Cemetery

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

View from the street
Permanently Closed

San Francisco, California

Defenestration

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Paxton Gate Exterior

San Francisco, California

Paxton Gate

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

Musée Mécanique

San Francisco, California

Musée Mécanique

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

Main entrance to the Exploratorium at Pier 15

San Francisco, California

Exploratorium

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

Cable Car Museum

San Francisco, California

San Francisco's Cable Car Museum

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

"Anti-Saloon League San Francisco Est. 1920" A sign seen outside Bourbon & Branch.

San Francisco, California

Bourbon & Branch

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

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