A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

St. Mary in the Mountains is the oldest active Catholic church in Nevada

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.