This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

At the edge of the high desert, California's second-largest natural lake is home to a unique subspecies of trout adapted to its alkaline waters.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.