This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."