A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

The world's only known button museum.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

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.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.