At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

Historical trolley restoration and operation at History San Jose, Kelly Park.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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!!

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.