Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.