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

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.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

This unique collection collects pieces of art etched into thin pieces of stone.

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.