Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

This is one really big nut.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

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

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

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

Authentic gondola hanging from the ceiling, notable mural in the back room.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.