A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

It would be a crime to miss it.

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

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Built in just a little over a week this preserved bunker was created to protect our most attractive POTUS while he was on vacation.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.