Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

A picturesque garden with a surprising past.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

WWII-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers. .

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.