A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

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

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

Giant nude woman of Tijuana is also the artist's home.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.