A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

An abandoned 1930s gas station turned bustling neighborhood park.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

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

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

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.

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

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

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.