A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

The hometown of a beloved manga artist created a treasure hunt for his popular ghostly characters.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

Rainbow-hued in the summer and crystalline in the winter, this salty lake has inspired battles, temples, and plenty of awe.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

These ruins have been linked to a sherbet factory that exploded, but the story may be entirely fictional.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.