The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Stockholm's last remaining paternoster elevator.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

Founded in 1788, this Rhode Island institution is the oldest operating general store in America.

A hidden workshop for creating and restoring Papal mosaic masterpieces.