One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

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

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.