One of the most iconic sculptures in Caracas looks like a large orange ball suspended in the air.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.