The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

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

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.