An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.