Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.