It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

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

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

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

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

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

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

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.