Los Angeles, California
La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
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Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Los Angeles, California
There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Glendale, California
An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.
Los Angeles, California
Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.
Los Angeles, California
The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.
Los Angeles, California
This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.
San Diego, California
One of the largest trees of its kind in California.
San Diego, California
An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.
San Diego, California
It would be a crime to miss it.
San Diego, California
The freeway that never was.
San Diego, California
Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.
San Diego, California
One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.
San Diego, California
Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.
San Diego, California
This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.
San Diego, California
San Diego's most historic and haunted home.
San Diego, California
Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.
Tijuana, Mexico
Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.