A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Russian history in San Francisco.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

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

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.