America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

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

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

This small museum tells the story of Fort Worth's first and largest superstore.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This mesmerizing kinetic sculpture blossoms endlessly in the breeze.

One of the world's largest collections of rare medical texts and ephemera.

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.