The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

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

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

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

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

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.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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

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