The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The middle finger of modernity.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

The magic's in the hole!

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Surprisingly Delicious Asian-Style Hot Dogs.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.