Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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

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

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

Working mining and drilling equipment demonstrate 150 years of energy history.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.