A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.