This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A train tunnel that was made obsolete by the dam it helped create.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

A giant statue perched on dumpsters watches over the freeway.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.

The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.