A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

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

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.