The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

Mexican food and folk art.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

This peaceful garden is hidden on the grounds of a spiritual organization founded by a pioneer yogi.

This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

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

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.