The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

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

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.