This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

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

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.