Wild West history in Hollywood style.

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

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Narrowest house in Boston.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

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

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.