This once prosperous community was home to European settlers and the Ojibwe.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

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

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

The famous blue house from the classic horror film "Halloween" is now a local landmark.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.