Founded by a high school teacher, this poetry magazine became a center for all things literary.

These artworks take you traveling to mythical medieval Europe, the politicized grape fields of 1960s California, and deep below sea level.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

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

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

The American Home, Re-imagined.

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.

Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.

This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.