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

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A mysterious phallic rock on the grounds of a Buddhist monastery.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.