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

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

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This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

WWII-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers. .

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

An amazing example of early-20th-century architecture, this church features marble transported from Utah.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.