A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

California's largest steel arch bridge.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

In the "Danish Capital of America," a replica of one of Copenhagen's most iconic buildings.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

A wealth of seafaring history displayed on the California coast.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Wander through desolate oil fields littered with rigs.

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

Get your footwear fixed inside a 30-foot-long shoe built by an obsessive cobbler in 1947.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

This vast and otherworldly landscape is one of the largest dune complexes in North America.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

This small interfaith chapel lies not far from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.