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

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.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

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

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.