Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

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

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

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

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

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

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

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.