This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

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

An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.