During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Anza led the first Spanish settlers from Mexico to Monterey, California in the 1770s.

This grand memorial remembers the 20 members of the Los Angeles Times killed when the office was bombed.

The final resting place of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and talented actors is on the grounds of a California Mission.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.