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

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.