This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

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

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.