An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The world's only known button museum.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.