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The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

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

A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

A piece of baseball history is preserved in a Pittsburgh parking lot.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

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

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.