Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

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.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A local prank turned town icon.