Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

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

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

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

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

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

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.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.