Mount Dora, Florida
Art Alley
A small strip of artistic displays is tucked away in a flea market.
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Mount Dora, Florida
A small strip of artistic displays is tucked away in a flea market.
Maitland, Florida
This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.
Seale, Alabama
A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.
Seale, Alabama
A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.
Savannah, Georgia
The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.
Savannah, Georgia
An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.
Savannah, Georgia
The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.
Atlanta, Georgia
A little-known mural reveals the hydrological reason for Atlanta's founding in this location.
Riverside, California
Mexican food and folk art.
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.
Los Angeles, California
This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.
Los Angeles, California
A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.
Los Angeles, California
A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.
Los Angeles, California
Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.
Randsburg, California
This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.
Whitney Portal, California
The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.
Lone Pine, California
The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.
Inyo County, California
This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.
Trona, California
One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.
California
This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.
Boron, California
Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.
Johannesburg, California
The liveliest ghost town in the state.
Tehachapi, California
Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.
Bodfish, California
This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.