After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

A Bibliophile's Dream.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

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

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.