Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

Inside, visitors are treated to the rich history of sugar farming and its impact on Hawaiian society.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

The only museum and archive west of the Mississippi that is dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

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.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.