A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

A museum dedicated to restoring vintage aircraft, located at a working airport.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.