What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

Home to fossils and other specimens from the Western Interior Seaway.

This historic railroad hotel built from Kansas limestone was once the most popular hotels for traveling salesmen in the midwest.

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.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.