This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

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

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.