Wild West history in Hollywood style.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

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.

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

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

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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.

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

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.