A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

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

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

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

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

The last of its kind in the country.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.