The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

An unusual monument to a 19th-century circus star.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

A network of fortifications that never saw conflict.

This remote stretch of sand is a penguin lover's paradise.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.