In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

The same family lived in this Victorian house for nearly 100 years without altering the building.

The location where a famous medieval knight was murdered.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

Happen to come across a dead eagle? Send it to America's official dead eagle warehouse.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.