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Take a walk through Beatnik history.

San Francisco, California

Jack Kerouac Alley

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.

Omega Mart

Las Vegas, Nevada

Omega Mart at Area 15

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

The African American Fire Fighter Museum

Los Angeles, California

The African American Fire Fighter Museum

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

Wacko Strorefeont

Los Angeles, California

Soap Plant / Wacko

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Behold, one of the Batmobiles from Batman Returns.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Hollywood Cars Museum and Liberace Garage

The most extravagant car collection features a Batmobile, Liberace's mirror ball-ed Rolls Royce, and a stunt car from 'The Fast and the Furious.'

Oconomowoc Oz Plaza

Oconomowoc, Wisconsin

Oz Plaza

Life-size statues of characters from 'The Wizard of Oz' stand at the one of the early screening sites for the 1939 movie.

All pieces of art are donated to this illegal museum.

Rome, Italy

Metropoliz Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

Basilica di San Clemente

Rome, Italy

Basilica di San Clemente

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

Stibbert Museum

Florence, Italy

Stibbert Museum

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

Heritage Street.

Henderson, Nevada

Heritage Street

Clark County Museum has created an entire street of historically important buildings relocated from various other locations within the county.

'Dividing the Light' at dusk.

Claremont, California

'Dividing the Light'

This public Skyspace created by artist James Turrell for his alma mater puts on a show every day at sunrise and sunset.

A rare Franciscan manzanita, similar to the one that led to Rowntree’s nighttime raid to save one of the endangered plants. She admitted that she’d "garnered it ghoulishly in a gunnysack.”

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Lester Rowntree Native Plant Garden

Named for a self-taught botanist who cataloged hundreds of native plants, this garden continues her work of preserving California plant life.

The marquee of Pensacola’s Saenger Theatre. "Saenger Theatre Pensacola 2007"

Pensacola, Florida

Saenger Theatre Pensacola

A Grand Dame of the vaudeville circuit restored to its former glory.

Funeral home artifacts, “haunted” dolls, and weird medicine are just a few of the hundreds of items at the American Oddities Museum.

Alton, Illinois

American Oddities Museum

A taxidermy “mermaid,” vampire-killing kits, and hundreds of other bizarre objects are housed at this quirky museum.

The concrete pillar holding the Blarney stone

Shamrock, Texas

Shamrock Blarney Stone

Get your gift of the gab on Route 66.

The Cloister

Toledo, Ohio

The Cloister

Centuries-old columns from French monasteries provide structure for this courtyard within an Ohio art museum.

The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument.

Jackson, Mississippi

Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

Pond, fountain and palm trees

Beverly Hills, California

Will Rogers Memorial Park

Hidden away among the quiet streets of Beverly Hills, this small park is a haven for walkers and wildlife.

The Art Deco neon sign of the Sag Harbor Cinema at dusk.

Sag Harbor, New York

Sag Harbor Cinema

This century-old independent movie theater with an iconic Art Deco neon sign survived a devastating fire in 2016.

The Rainbow Crosswalk is paved with a familiar Art Deco pattern in colors chosen from Leonard Horowitz's palette.

Miami Beach, Florida

The Rainbow Crosswalk

This Ocean Drive crosswalk has been paved in rainbow colors to honor the LGBTQ+ community and the man who brought pastel to Miami Beach.

Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Museum

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Museum

In addition to over 80 vehicles on display covering over 100 years of motorcycle history, this free museum focuses on the people who ride and love these bikes.

Lost City of Mangonia

West Palm Beach, Florida

Lost City of Mangonia

This historic site situated in the Northwood shores neighborhood houses the remains of a forgotten town.

A son of Deucalion.

Urbana, Illinois

Sons and Daughters of Deucalion and Pyrrha

Fragments of a massive unfinished sculpture sit near the main quad of the University of Illinois.

Desert Lily Sanctuary

Desert Center, California

Desert Lily Sanctuary

A wondrous place to watch a special flower bloom.

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