This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.