Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This fountain was designed to honor the man who helped bring water to Barcelona.

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

On the wall of this medieval walkway, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.