An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

These sculptures were created by a 17th-century artist who had never seen an elephant.

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

Inside, visitors are treated to the rich history of sugar farming and its impact on Hawaiian society.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

The only museum and archive west of the Mississippi that is dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.