The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.