The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

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

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

Exquisite irises bloom every spring in this hillside garden.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

This castle was once considered as an option for the Royal Family's alternate residence, but you may know it better from the 'X-Men' movie.