Los Angeles, California
LAX Theme Building
This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.
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Los Angeles, California
This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.
Los Angeles, California
Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.
Los Angeles, California
Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.
Altadena, California
"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.
Los Angeles, California
This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.
Los Angeles, California
A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.
Los Angeles, California
A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.
Los Angeles, California
This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.
Los Angeles, California
Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.
Los Angeles, California
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
Grants, New Mexico
A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.
Madrid, New Mexico
Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.
Chimayo, New Mexico
This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.
Pecos, New Mexico
Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Volunteers spent years restoring a vintage steam locomotive to operating condition.
Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico
A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.
San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico
This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.
Madrid, New Mexico
A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.
New Mexico
This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.