Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

Russian history in San Francisco.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

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

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.