A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

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

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.