This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

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

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

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

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.