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This curious fresh and salt water lake holds a secret that draws in deep divers from around the world.

Watch a magnificent, ever-changing colorscape inside James Turrell's immersive work of art.

This public Skyspace created by artist James Turrell for his alma mater puts on a show every day at sunrise and sunset.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

A new monument to an old grave that was uncovered during the rebuilding of a California ghost town.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.