A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

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

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

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

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

Stop by to view a fleet of handmade kayaks, all modeled on traditional Arctic hunting vessels.