Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Yo, Adrian!

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.