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

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

The magic's in the hole!

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

The smallest country in the world.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

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