An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.