This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

Site of the 1926 murder trial of Ernest Burkhart who was involved in the "Reign of Terror."

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

It’s all about the Benjamins at this Atlanta museum with interactive exhibits.

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

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

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.