The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

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.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.