An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

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

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

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This holy site either displays a centuries-old cross or a complete fake.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.