This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

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

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.