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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

This supermarket in Shanghai appears to be a typical Chinese convenience store, but all of the bottles are empty and all the containers are filled with nothing but air.

A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

Little remains of the once flourishing Asbestos' asbestos mine.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.