This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

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

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

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

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

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.