During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

This poignant sculpture of a gnarled weapon is a symbol of non-violence.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.