A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

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

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

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

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

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.