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.

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

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

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

This historic graveyard was partially paved over to create a streetcar line.

An inconspicuous suburban street corner is the site of San Diego's worst air disaster.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

The classic Atari game's iconic aliens have invaded downtown San Diego.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus