The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

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

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

This 15th century pub is one of only two pubs in England situated on consecrated ground.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.