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Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.