This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

A museum dedicated to an elusive cryptid.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

This private home is famous for appearing in the cult-classic "Twin Peaks" series.

Designed as a labyrinth, this subterranean prison was crafted without bars or doors.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.