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

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.