Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

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

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

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

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

When California condors were hovering on the brink of extinction, this recovery program was charged with helping the birds thrive again.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

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

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

The last Americana on Route 66.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Built as a schoolhouse in 1914, this Mission-style building has also served as a dancehall, a library, an Army canteen, and now a cultural museum.

A pink sandstone column once used in ancient times to measure one's belly after a night of debauchery.

An abandoned lighthouse located on the cliffs of Barbados.

Scotland's oldest medieval bridge is also among the last reminders of early medieval Aberdeen.

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.