Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

A pair of disused Los Angeles electrical poles now glow with delicate windows into the past.

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

The simple auditorium that launched a pop icon's career into the stratosphere.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

A California city claims to be the home of a fast-food classic.