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

Half of a house.

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

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

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

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

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

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.