A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

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

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

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

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

Southern Ocean waters and glacial forces transform the Antarctic ice into these stunning bridges and caves.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.