A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

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

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

Beside some power panels, a plaque celebrates the history of an alternate world.