The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

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

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

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

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.