Los Angeles, California
La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
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Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Amboy, California
The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.
Landers, California
Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Joshua Tree, California
Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.
Los Angeles, California
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.
San Francisco, California
A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.
Los Angeles, California
A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.
San Francisco, California
A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.
Los Angeles, California
This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
San Luis Obispo, California
A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.
Fresno, California
An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.
San Francisco, California
This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
Los Angeles, California
Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.
Los Angeles, California
This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.
San Francisco, California
A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.
New York, New York
Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.
New York, New York
A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.
New York, New York
The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.
Brooklyn, New York
One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.
Los Angeles, California
Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.
Redmond, Oregon
Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.