Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

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

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

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

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

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

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.