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Brackettville, Texas

Alamo Village

permanently closed
Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.
Amarillo, Texas

Combine City

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.
Marfa, Texas

Chinati Foundation

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.
Alpine, Texas

Target Marathon

permanently closed
This is probably not the Target you're looking for.
Valentine, Texas

Prada Marfa

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Lakewood, Colorado

Denver’s Dinosaur Hotel

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.
Denver, Colorado

National Ice Core Lab

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.
Denver, Colorado

International Church of Cannabis

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.
Los Angeles, California

Townhouse Bar and Speakeasy

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.
Los Angeles, California

Traffic Circle Gondola

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.
Los Angeles, California

Mosaic Tile House

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.
Culver City, California

Holy Cross Cemetery

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.
Tucson, Arizona

309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group

permanently closed
The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.
City of Industry, California

Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.
Costa Mesa, California

California Scenario

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.
Cerritos, California

Cerritos Sculpture Garden

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.
Los Angeles, California

Idle Hour

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

Cawston Ostrich Farm

The most popular attraction in Southern California was once a flock of ornery bipedal birds that pulled carts.
Los Angeles, California

John Sowden House

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.
Los Angeles, California

Synchronicity Space

permanently closed
An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.
Los Angeles, California

Templo Santa Muerte

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.
Los Angeles, California

Angels Flight

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.
Huntington Beach, California

Don The Beachcomber

permanently closed
This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.
Carson, California

International Printing Museum

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.