Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

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

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

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.