The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.