A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.