Los Angeles, California
The Bonaventure Hotel
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.
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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
Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.
Los Angeles, California
Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.
Los Angeles, California
This sculpture presents commentary on a life in pursuit of profits.
Los Angeles, California
A 50-foot tile mural mosaic for the 100-year anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.
Los Angeles, California
This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.
Los Angeles, California
The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.
Los Angeles, California
A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.
Los Angeles, California
This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.
Los Angeles, California
Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Los Angeles, California
A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.
Charleston, South Carolina
Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.
Charleston, South Carolina
The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.
Charleston, South Carolina
Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.
Charleston, South Carolina
This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.
Charleston, South Carolina
Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.
Charleston, South Carolina
A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.
Charleston, South Carolina
Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.
Charleston, South Carolina
Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.
Charleston, South Carolina
Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.
Johns Island, South Carolina
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.