An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.