Making Ice Cream Hip Since 2008.

A British pub embodies the spirit of a California legend.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

A California city claims to be the home of a fast-food classic.

The site of the house Jack Parsons made famous both in life and death.

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

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

One man's labor of love, Amman's oldest home has become a time capsule with its doors permanently open to artists and guests.

The 20th-century archaeologist was interred among the ruins of an ancient Roman city.

Perched above the bustling town of Kerak is a sprawling, ruinous castle that has witnessed nearly a millennia of Levantine history.

These ruins by the Dead Sea is where John the Baptist met his untimely end.

A refurbished locomotive from a bygone era in the middle of the Jordanian desert.

An oasis of shade and color amidst the bustle of the old city.

Known as the "Valley of the Moon," this Jordanian wadi is one of the most amazing desertscapes on Earth.

This ancient stone necropolis is in danger of disappearing.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.