The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

A British pub embodies the spirit of a California legend.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Mexican food and folk art.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.