One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Russian history in San Francisco.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

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

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

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

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Definitely not a clown bar.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

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

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.