The final resting place of a space program monolith.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

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.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.