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

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

Originally the home of chewing gum mogul William Wrigely Jr, it is now the official offices of the Tournament of Roses.

This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

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

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

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

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."