At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

A historic train ride from California to Mexico.

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

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

Controversial site of what could be Europe's first pyramid.

An apparition of Virgin Mary in Herzegovina.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.