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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.