This 150-year-old train station and caboose have been turned into a railroad museum, enjoyed by young and old alike.

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Dinosaurs, magic, and wonder are hidden amid the forests of Allaire State Park.

A trompe-l'oeil statue honoring the first guide dog in North America.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.