Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.