Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

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

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

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

This garden among the Florentine hills is complete with a meditation path and works of poetry.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.