Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

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

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.