A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

A mountain pass in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains was the site of four historic battles.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Muammar Gaddafi's well-intentioned investment in his favorite city turned out to be a nightmare.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

"The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3."

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.