A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A science teacher's dream.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.