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

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

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

This San Diego museum, housed in a former Navy training facility, is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Mexican food and folk art.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

The last Americana on Route 66.