Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

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

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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 semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

New York's oldest magic store.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.