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

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

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.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.