San Francisco, California
The Shipwrecks at Land's End
A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
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San Francisco, California
A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
San Francisco, California
The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.
San Francisco, California
Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
San Francisco, California
The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
San Francisco, California
Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.
San Francisco, California
A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.
San Francisco, California
This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.
San Francisco, California
A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
New York, New York
Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.
New York, New York
An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.
Port Orford, Oregon
A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.
Klamath, California
Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.
Eureka, California
Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.
Eureka, California
Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."
Crescent City, California
A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.
Orick, California
Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.
Phillipsville, California
A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.
Piercy, California
An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.
Leggett, California
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
Fort Bragg, California
Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.