Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

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.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

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