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This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

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

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.