America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

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

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.