A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

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

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.