"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

Mexico's largest collection of masks is found in the ruins of an abandoned convent.

A lovely summer day by the sea becomes a nightmare.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

This public elevator links the lower city to the upper city of Salvador.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

One of the world's most advanced radio observatories sprawls across the Atacama Desert.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

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

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.