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This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

An eerie natural formation that looks right back at you.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

Meet 'Big Josh,' the 20-foot-tall muffler man.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."