A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

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

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

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

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

The former headquarters of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education now houses a muralism museum, including Diego Rivera's first large-scale mural project.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

These roaring primates were considered a divine creature in the cosmology of the Maya.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.