Make sweet music as you walk through this interactive sonic sculpture.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

This depiction of the earth mother welcomes new life into Aurora Highlands.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.