This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

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

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

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

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.