This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.