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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

Climb through the life of a Mexican hero as you ascend a 130-foot statue.

A hotel masquerading as a medieval castle overlooks a Mexican city.

One of the city's most imposing Neoclassical buildings is also one of its most prestigious schools.

This colonial mining complex is now home to magnificent themed gardens.

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

A wooden sculpture sits rather out of place in this Mexican beach town.

A sculpture dedicated to the trade that gave the town its name.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.