A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

This collection of vintage signs reflects the long and colorful history of this Arizona town.

A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

The history and future of cannabis.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

The world's only known button museum.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."