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

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

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

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.