The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

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

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

The most disputed archipelago in the world.

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