Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.