A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

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.

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

An urban laboratory.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.