The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

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

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.