Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

The only American museum exclusively dedicated to the exhibition of gloves.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

Thousands of bottles that have held everything from poison to perfume make up the collection of this small museum.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.