One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

Siddhartha Gautama sat here and received enlightenment.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.