Places ouroborosasunder Wants to Go

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

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

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Russian history in San Francisco.

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

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.