The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

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

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.