Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

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

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

"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.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

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

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Volunteers spent years restoring a vintage steam locomotive to operating condition.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.