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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Mexican food and folk art.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

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

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.