A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

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

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

The magic's in the hole!

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.