A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

Museum housed in underground tunnels that date back to Buenos Aires's earliest settlements.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

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

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.