A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

America's first public mental health facility.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

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