This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.

Mexican food and folk art.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The last of its kind in the country.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.