This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.

Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

A large instrument played by the wind.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

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

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.