This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.