One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

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

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A land of debatable treasure.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.