The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The last of its kind in the country.

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.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.