This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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