Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

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.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

This bank is widely believed to be the inspiration for the offices of Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective featured in a number of Raymond Chandler's stories.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

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

The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," and outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

Tiny treasures, giant murals, and strange sculptures decorate the windows and doors of this abandoned building.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.