A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Come for the records, stay for the retro pinball machines.

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

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

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

A museum dedicated to the decorative arts from the 16th through 19th centuries.

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

This restaurant's marvelous musical machines include a self-playing violin.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.