A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

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

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.