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

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Only a handful of these gorgeous historic waterwheels remain but even those are in danger from local unrest.

Amid the rubble of Aleppo's Old Quarter, part of a historic market has been restored and re-opened.

One of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.