Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

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

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

The diverse and sometimes odd cultural heritage of the Golden State is collected, examined, and displayed in this proud museum.