The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

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

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

This 11th-century castle sits so low you can't see it behind the surrounding buildings.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

This historic roadhouse has many tales to tell of San Francisco's early history.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.