A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A memorial to the firefighters who died in an industrial disaster is housed in a small public park.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

The final resting place of 19th-century sailors previously banned from being buried within Portuguese Macau.

The name of the only golden Buddhist temple in Korea translates as "the temple that protects the country."

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.