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

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

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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.