This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

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

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

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

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.

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

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

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Mine your own precious stones.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.