The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

"Only the devil could play golf here."