A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

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

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

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

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.