An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

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

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.