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

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

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

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Amid the bustle of the Pike Place Market is a poem by famed Japanese poet Narihira.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

A glimpse of the Pacific Northwest‘s indigenous culture in Washington, D.C.

The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

Engraved in stone here are the signatures of everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

The rubbery beast is sculpted from recycled materials.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

According to Greek mythology, this natural spring is the home of a freshwater nymph.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

Rumored to be a giant robot in disguise, this colossal chef has been the beloved symbol of Tokyo’s kitchenware district for decades.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.