This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

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.

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

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

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

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

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A small granite block at this monument's base is the only part of Lincoln's Tomb outside of Illinois.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.