Places Edited by MtnLady

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

Because there's no place like home.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

The so-called "Bridge of Thighs" in Palm Springs allows nudists to discreetly cross the road.

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

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.