The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

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

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

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

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

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.