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

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

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

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

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

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

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

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The world's largest woodcarving collection includes dozens of Bible scenes and a wooden bestiary, all carved by one man.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.