The last Americana on Route 66.

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

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.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.