Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

An entertaining journey through the odd and strange awaits visitors to this shop.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

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

The only museum and archive west of the Mississippi that is dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

A camera with an ongoing exposure time of 1,000 years.

You’ll never see the sky the same way after visiting this art installation in Tempe.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.