An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.