This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

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

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

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

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

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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