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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.