The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

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

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

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

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

A tribute to long time Venice Beach resident, artist and actor Dennis Hopper.

A British pub embodies the spirit of a California legend.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.