Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.

Low-frequency noise compared to an idling train can only be heard by some of this industrial town's residents.

Modeled after the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, this small-town Indiana memorial labyrinth sits half a world away.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

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 largest drain hole in the world.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.