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Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

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.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

A history of tragedy and a pile of eerie stories have contributed to this house's consistent ranking as one of the most haunted places in Ohio.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had a tremendous humanitarian impact by locating thousands of missing soldiers.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.