This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The last Americana on Route 66.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

"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.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.