This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

Years of neglect and nature took a toll on this 19th-century lighthouse.

This former sugarcane transport tunnel is now a portal to a lovely beach.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.

These eclectic homes nestled into the cliffs of a Caribbean island were built entirely from scavenged materials.

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

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

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.