Florence, Italy
Santa Maria Novella Pharmacy
The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.
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Florence, Italy
The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.
Townsend, Tennessee
Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.
Williamsburg, Virginia
America's first public mental health facility.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Homosassa, Florida
Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.
Paris, France
This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Rome, Italy
2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.
Rome, Italy
A Nesting Doll of Churches.
San Francisco, California
A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.
San Francisco, California
An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.
Victoria, British Columbia
The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
Seattle, Washington
A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Seaside, Oregon
Where Nor'easters go to die.
Astoria, Oregon
A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.