These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

From the dishes to the art, this Michelin-starred restaurant orbits around one beloved French melon.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.