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A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

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

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

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

Tourists who rely on a transit map to find the iconic Beatles location often end up in a far-off neighborhood.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

Half of a house.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

Historical trolley restoration and operation at History San Jose, Kelly Park.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

Riding on a pair of architectural dragons, this Thailand temple holds murals full of lurid imagery.