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

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

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

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.