A futuristic-looking beach house built for the owner of a snack food brand.

A statue based on a tragic Japanese nursery rhyme, commemorating San Diego's sisterhood with Yokohama.

The Gaslamp District's oldest bar sports a urinal marked with a golden plaque that was allegedly used by Mick Jagger.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

This historic Chinese church was relocated and revived as a museum that preserves and celebrates Chinese art, history, and culture.

Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.