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A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A prime example of New Orleans' unique architecture these early 20th century homes were built to look like steamboats.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.