Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

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

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

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

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.