Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

An elaborate memorial to a man local legend says died of a broken heart.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A camera with an ongoing exposure time of 1,000 years.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.