Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

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.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

World's largest Christmas store.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.