This neighborhood was built in the golden age of Art-Decó, and its buildings are essential to understanding this style

A grand entrance to one of the world's smallest Chinatowns.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

This tiny garden was built specifically to provide a place of peace and serenity away from the busy city streets.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The heart of Little Saigon in Orange County is also the first and largest Vietnamese shopping center in the U.S.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

For nearly 50 years, this San Francisco nonprofit has been serving as a mix of recycling center and art school.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

In 2008, this Mexico City metro station was the site of an hours-long fight between emo, punk, and goth groups.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

Holy relic of a girl in communion attire inside the cathedral of Guadalajara

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Lombard Street may be more famous, but this is the real “crookedest street in the world.”

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.