A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

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

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

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

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.