A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

An eerie natural formation that looks right back at you.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

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

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

One of the oldest adobe structures in Northern California.

Eight huge lanterns lining a city street can change color on command.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A showcase of engineering might that was also symbolic of westward expansion.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Next to Salt Lake City's Assembly Hall stands a tribute to some unlikely heroes of early Mormon settlers.