The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

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

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.