Los Angeles, California
Marilyn Monroe's Crypt
Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.
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Los Angeles, California
Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.
Los Angeles, California
The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.
Los Angeles, California
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.
Los Angeles, California
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.
Los Angeles, California
Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.
Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Los Angeles, California
A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
New York, New York
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
Menands, New York
The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.
Nashville, Tennessee
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
Portland, Oregon
This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Portland, Oregon
This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.
Portland, Oregon
10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Hawaii’s largest cemetery rests inside an extinct volcano crater.
Lahaina, Hawaii
Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.
Hilo, Hawaii
This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.