One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world.