A Netherlands hotel where you can sleep inside a wine barrel.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

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

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.