Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

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

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

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

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.