Los Angeles, California
The Bonaventure Hotel
The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.
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Los Angeles, California
The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.
Los Angeles, California
The man who voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and more has a headstone reading, "That's all, folks!"
Los Angeles, California
Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.
Los Angeles, California
60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.
Los Angeles, California
A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.
Los Angeles, California
The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.
Los Angeles, California
The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.
Los Angeles, California
A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.
Los Angeles, California
Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.βs Miracle Mile.
Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Seattle, Washington
A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.
Seattle, Washington
Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.
Seattle, Washington
A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Scituate, Massachusetts
A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.
San Francisco, California
This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.
Washington, D.C.
This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.
Los Angeles, California
A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.
Valencia, Spain
This abandoned viewing platform has become a monument to unnecessary government spending.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.
San Francisco, California
One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.
New York, New York
This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.
Adelaide, Australia
The famed literary character has a unique connection to this city.