Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.