This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

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

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

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.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.