Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.