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

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

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

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

A full-size replica of this well-preserved temple lets you take a walk through the Mayan age.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.