A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

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

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

"The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3."