The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Political debates in a fabulous Pasadena castle.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.

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

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

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

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

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