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Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

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

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

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

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.