This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

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

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

A Romanesque sanctuary of calm amid the bustle of downtown Los Angeles.