A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

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

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.