Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

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