A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

In 1847, Brigham Young climbed this hill to survey the Salt Lake Valley and saw a fine place to build a city.

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

A unique local art exhibit that has continued to grow since 1989.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

A pair of oily black spiders lurk inside South Korea's largest airport.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

A golden temple atop a sacred mountain, known for its giant effigy of the revered Pu Xian.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.