A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

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

This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.