Oldest building in California still in use.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

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

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.