Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.