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.

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.