This "Palace of Purification" has made many film appearances as a dark and sinister headquarters.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

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

The "Seinfeld" diner.