This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

Thousands of bottles that have held everything from poison to perfume make up the collection of this small museum.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

A tribute to the movie stars who fought to keep Beverly Hills separate from Los Angeles.

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

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

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

This sculpture presents commentary on a life in pursuit of profits.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.