San Jose, California
The Winchester Mystery House
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
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San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
De Leon Springs, Florida
Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.
Lake Helen, Florida
Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.
Blackville, South Carolina
This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.
Winter Park, Florida
Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.
Mount Dora, Florida
A small strip of artistic displays is tucked away in a flea market.
Pierson, Florida
This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.
Los Angeles, California
Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.
Norden, California
This trailside hut was built in the late 1930s as a memorial to a young hiker.
Truckee, California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
Nevada City, California
This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.
Nevada City, California
A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.
South Lake Tahoe, California
One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.
Olympic Valley, California
A well-preserved sheepherding camp now lies in the heart of the Granite Chief Wilderness, in the high Sierra Nevada.
Rio Vista, California
Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.
Grass Valley, California
The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."