Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

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

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.