An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”

In the waters outside Helsinki, a tiny island once used as a military outpost now welcomes visitors.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

The traveling wares of Denmark's most famous author.