An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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.

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

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

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.