Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A mysterious sculpture is hidden in Vancouver's Stanley Park.

Made of granite, this is a symbol of the Inuit peoples near water that expresses abundance.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

The oldest building in Vancouver's Chinatown is now home to one of Canada’s largest contemporary art collections.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.