Sporting Brutalist architecture, this school is hidden amid a quiet suburban neighborhood.

Named for a self-taught botanist who cataloged hundreds of native plants, this garden continues her work of preserving California plant life.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

An unexpected connection to Chicago awaits visitors on an island just off the California coast.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course

The last Americana on Route 66.

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

When California condors were hovering on the brink of extinction, this recovery program was charged with helping the birds thrive again.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

The helicopter that "Tricky Dick" absconded from the White House in on his last day in office.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.