This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.