This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.