This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

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

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.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

In a forgotten Central Valley industrial park lies the busiest railroad junction in California.

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

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.