Los Angeles, California
Site of Charlie Chaplin Studios
The Hollywood home of Kermit the Frog and Yoda used to be Charlie Chaplin's film studio.
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Los Angeles, California
The Munch Box
A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.
Palm Springs, California
Ruddy's General Store Museum
This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.
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Bakersfield, California
Last Woolworth's Lunch Counter
An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.
Los Angeles, California
Crossroads of the World
A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.
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Los Angeles, California
The Babylon Court
This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Bugsy Siegel Monument
An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.
Desert Hot Springs, California
Cabot's Pueblo Museum
The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.
Agoura Hills, California
M*A*S*H Filming Location
The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.
Los Angeles, California
Valley Relics Museum
One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.
Flagstaff, Arizona
Twin Arrows Trading Post Ruins
A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.
Riverside, California
The Parent Washington Navel Tree
This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.
Newberry Springs, California
Rock-A-Hoola Waterpark
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
Lucerne Valley, California
Jack O'Landia
This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.
Los Angeles, California
Bronson Cave
It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.
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Long Beach, California
Looff's Lite-A-Line
The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.
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Los Angeles, California
Robinson's Liberty Bells
Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome
A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”
Los Angeles, California
Old Trapper's Lodge Statues
A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.
Oro Grande, California
Elmer Long's Bottle Tree Ranch
Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.
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Fairview, Utah
Thistle Ghost Town
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
Carson, California
International Printing Museum
One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.
Los Angeles, California
Old Zoo Picnic Area
The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
