Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."