An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.