A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

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

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

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

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.