An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

This park is home to well over 100 handmade birdhouses.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

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

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

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

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.