Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

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

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

This San Diego museum, housed in a former Navy training facility, is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

For posterity, a singular achievement: 3,780 hours of dancing.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.