A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

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

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

This small-town museum is dedicated to the original western movie mega-star.

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.