Located close to a movie studio lot, this restaurant has a long history of star-studded patronage.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

At night, this glittering musical tunnel draws skaters and photographers.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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