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

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

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

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

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

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.

Stretching almost 2,000 feet, this painting is one of the longest pieces of Buddhist artwork in the world.

It took an artist 20 years to create this sprawling sculpture garden honoring the area's ancient inhabitants.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

Unique geological formations in China, featuring some suggestive shapes.

The world's largest statue of Mao Zedong looks out over the city where he discovered Communism.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

The tiny statues form China's only known terracotta army from the Han dynasty.

A bright turquoise river cascades beautifully down stepped terraces in southern China.

A cliff-hanging restaurant.