The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

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

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.