A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.