Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.