Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.