A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

An underwater city for the dead.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

An unexpected and peaceful oasis on a hillside.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

An abandoned 1930s gas station turned bustling neighborhood park.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.