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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

Don't be a grizzly man. Get personal with Alaska's wild bears from the safety of this conservationist camp.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

Abstract marble carving for an 8.5-pound rock.

Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.