A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The world's longest known cave system.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.