After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

The magic's in the hole!

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

A replica that won't float away.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.