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Pretty nice for an infrastructure accident!

Mecca, California

Salton Sea

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Mystery Castle

Phoenix, Arizona

Mystery Castle

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Kiidk'yaas, the Golden Spruce

British Columbia, Canada

Kiidk'yaas, the Golden Spruce

This revered mutant tree was felled in an act of ecoterrorism leaving a legacy of myth and possibly murder.

Totems of Haida Gwaii

Tlell, British Columbia

Totems of Haida Gwaii

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

Cougar Annie's Garden

Boat Basin, British Columbia

Cougar Annie's Garden

Cougar Annie earned her nickname after shooting 60 cougars over the years as well as 80 black bears who threatened her garden.

Miller Comb Museum
Permanently Closed

Homer, Alaska

Miller Comb Museum

The largest collection of ornamental hair combs on the planet.

Petersen Rock Garden

Redmond, Oregon

Petersen Rock Garden

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Fixtures from the "sidewalk's" former use as a working aqueduct can still be found along the path
Permanently Closed

Fremont, California

The Secret Sidewalk

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Prada Marfa.

Valentine, Texas

Prada Marfa

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

This way to the Caravansary of Joy.

Joshua Tree, California

Institute of Mentalphysics

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

Devils Golf Course Landscape

Inyo County, California

Devils Golf Course Landscape

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Badwater Basin

Inyo County, California

Badwater Basin

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

Yes, you can make art from an abandoned toilet.

Joshua Tree, California

The Noah Purifoy Desert Art Museum

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

They were built in 1979.

San Francisco, California

Esmeralda Slide Park

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

The Point Lobos Marine Exchange Lookout Station seen from the access road

San Francisco, California

Land’s End Octagon House

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

(Audium press photo)

San Francisco, California

Audium Theatre of Sound-Sculptured Space

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Sown here in 1947 already crumbling away.Courtesy SF History Center, San Francisco Public Library.

San Francisco, California

The "Center" of San Francisco Monument

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

View of the ruins from the hillside. The original stairs would have come down on the far left. The curved edge of the original aquarium and the outline of the diving well are on the right.

San Francisco, California

Ruins of the Sutro Baths

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

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Pullman, Washington

The Junk Castle

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

Empty shoots at Aquatic Paradise
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Sitges, Spain

Sitges Aquatic Paradise

Abandoned waterpark turned counter-culture mecca.

Cafe outside the museum

Paris, France

Musée de la Vie Romantique

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Gustave Eiffel's Secret Apartment

Paris, France

Gustave Eiffel's Secret Apartment

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The President John F. Kennedy Bunker

West Palm Beach, Florida

The President John F. Kennedy Bunker

Built in just a little over a week this preserved bunker was created to protect our most attractive POTUS while he was on vacation.

Mammoth skull donated to the Adventurer's Club in 1925 by club member Joseph Chilberg.

Los Angeles, California

The Adventurers' Club of Los Angeles

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

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