A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

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

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

An urban laboratory.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.