A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

An Airy Would-Be Solution to a Housing Shortage.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

The smallest country in the world.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.