An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.