A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.