If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

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.

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

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

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

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

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

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.