A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

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

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Come for the heirloom-corn whiskey, stay for the wood hats.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.