The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

The closest thing to Mars on Earth.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

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

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

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

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

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

More than five miles of underground passageways.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.