Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.