A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Despite the groans of archaeologists, this astounding groups of Bronze Age petroglyphs have been painted red for tourists.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

A 200-year-old collection of medical paraphernalia in a historic house.

A magnificent Victorian garden that brings the charm and style of old-time aristocracy to the 21st century public.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.