An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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.

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Yo, Adrian!

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.