A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

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

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

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

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

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

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.