What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.

The oldest standing structure in downtown San Diego.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

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

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

For decades, the parade of apostles that left the Expiatory Temple of Guadalajara remained hidden inside one of the towers.

This historic cemetery built for victims of the epidemics that swept Guadalajara is shrouded in macabre tales.

This singular Mexican structure is considered a masterpiece of the Tapatía architectural school.

This structure was moved nearly 40 feet while people continued working inside it.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

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

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

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.