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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.