This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

The last family-owned, single-screen moviehouse in La La Land.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

Traversing these canyons, visitors can take in stunning views and glimpses of the region's history.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

Since the 1930s, this Pennsylvania town has celebrated the humble tomato.

This national landmark is also home to a massive treehouse.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

This beloved, whimsical weiner topped an eclectic variety of Los Angeles buildings, including a Thai restaurant and an advertising agency.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

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.