This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.