An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.