A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Giant telescope mirrors built in a spinning furnace under a college football stadium.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

The train engine is tucked under an apartment building on a quiet Tokyo street.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

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

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.