Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

Southern California’s Theme Park Beginnings.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

A Community Cornerstone.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.