A miniature beach in the middle of the desert.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

This restaurant's marvelous musical machines include a self-playing violin.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The final resting place of the liberator of Argentina is guarded around the clock by two soldiers.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This unique bed and breakfast was first constructed during the 1800s by a Russian immigrant family.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

Its vast collection details the history of this Santa Barbara beach town.

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.