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

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

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

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.