This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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