After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

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

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

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

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

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.