Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

A mile-long audio-guided walking tour preserves an iconic era of Portland soul music.

At night, this glittering musical tunnel draws skaters and photographers.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.