Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

This bizarre hotel on historic Route 66 has been plagued by rumors of paranormal activity.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

A Hell's Kitchen synagogue that has counted stars of stage and screen among its congregation.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.