An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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.

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.