A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

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

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

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

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

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

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