"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

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

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

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.

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.

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

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.