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The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

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

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

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

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

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