The former home of the famed revolutionary Pancho Villa is now a museum in his honor.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

A 50-foot tile mural mosaic for the 100-year anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.

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

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

A forgotten tribute to a South American hero hidden in a cluster of traffic islands.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

One of two Southern California statues celebrating “The Duke,” this one towers over a Beverly Hills sidewalk.

Anza led the first Spanish settlers from Mexico to Monterey, California in the 1770s.

Murder, searching for gold, and being cut in half—the memorial statue of Daniel O. McCarthy and the Pioneers of '49

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

A series of abstract sculptures pop up from an otherworldly volcanic landscape.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

It wouldn't be long after purchasing this farm, Brown would lead his siege on Harper's Ferry.

One of 100 “Whaling Wall" murals painted in 13 different countries by a renowned marine life artist.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.