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

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.