An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Although he donated over 3,000 acres to Los Angles, Griffith's life was marred by controversy.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

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

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.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

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

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

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

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.