Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

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

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.