One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Mexican food and folk art.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

An informal walk of fame in front of a Hollywood office building remembers a comedic great and his associates.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

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

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

Because there's no place like home.