The Mel’s Drive location in Santa Monica has been home to a coffee shop since 1959. Formerly The Penguin Coffee shop, you can still see...

Taking a photo of the Route 66 markers in each state is certainly a must do, but keep your eyes open once you hit Los Angeles, as each...

It’s hard to miss the glorious, faded jade green art deco behemoth known as The Wiltern Theater. It’s a must visit at any time of day,...

Pantages Theater is right on Hollywood Boulevard and should definitely be a stop on your Hollywood road trip. You will need to buy a...

Belmont Park is a vintage amusement park by the ocean boardwalk of Mission Beach in San Diego. It opened in 1925, and its most iconic...

Sitting on 13 acres in the back blocks of San Diego, under the glow of a fabulous neon sign, lies the still operational Santee Drive-In....

San Diego’s Rudford’s shiny steel diner is a classic, open 7 days a week and 24 hours a day since 1949. After opening those glass and...

We LOVE Escondido for boasting more than its fair share of quirky roadside attractions and the giant 25-foot-tall fiberglass Joor Muffler...

Can there be many more locations that sound as adorabubble as Shady Lane Park? And tiny Shady Lane Park tucked away in a suburban street...

The beautiful, restored Hawaii Theater, located on the edge of Chinatown in Honolulu, celebrated its 100th birthday in 2022. “The Pride...

One million gajillion stars for The Museum of Broadway. It is an eye poppingly fun experience not to be missed. What sets the Broadway...

You’re terrible Muriel - but you’re fabulous mural! We just love a vintage postcard style mural, so our eyes popped out of our heads with...

Siegfried and Roy’s compound, dubbed the "Jungle Palace”, was their Las Vegas home for over 30 years. Built in 1954, the compound...

Little Louie the Lumberjack is a 10-foot-tall lumberjack who stands randomly in a car park in Flagstaff Arizona. The location was once...

We LOVE vintage postcard murals, and only recently discovered that more than 60 of these dotted all over the country are from the same...

Here at Roadside Wonderland we pride ourselves on driving a long way out of our way to obscure destinations to see rocks painted to...

The Liberace Mansion was built in 1962 and purchased by Liberace in 1972. Actually, the mansion started life as two separate homes that...

Toot toot, hey, beep beep! Here, in somebody’s front, side and back yard lie 1000 dead Tonka Trucks - may they rest in peace, here in the...

Vintage neon sign alert! The neon sign at the Thunderbird Lodge in Riverside is epic. The 50 foot tall neon sign is topped with a...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No! It’s a giant button flying through the air in the garment district of New York. Upon closer inspection it...