Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

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.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

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

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

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.