Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

Jurassic theme park in the small town of Erlian.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Like something out of a bad acid trip, this Ukraine hallway has been covered in hallucinatory phantasmagoria.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

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

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.