One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

A family agreed to sell their property to Disney on the condition that this tree, planted as a wedding gift, would not be removed.

Inspiration struck on this seat outside the Griffith Park merry-go-round.

The lead horse on a Disneyland merry-go-round that is older than the park itself.

The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.