A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

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

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

"The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3."

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.