The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A wondrous place to watch a special flower bloom.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

Educational foundation that teaches the powers of fourth dimensional physical properties.

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.