The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

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

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

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

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.