This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.