The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.