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

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

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.

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.