Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

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

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

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

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

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

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

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.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts displays what it calls the world's largest ship model.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.