This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

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

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

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.