A series of vibrant murals celebrate the culture and community of Oakland.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.