The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

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

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.