The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

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

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

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.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

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

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

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

A classic mystery spot complete with spots that are said to make you shrink or grow when you stand on them.

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.