A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

The American Home, Re-imagined.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

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

Home to items never before seen by the public.

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

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

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

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

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

A building so large that it has its own weather.