An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

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.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

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

An informal walk of fame in front of a Hollywood office building remembers a comedic great and his associates.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

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.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.