Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

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

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

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

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.