A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

The world's first disc golf course has the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a neighbor.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

An entertaining journey through the odd and strange awaits visitors to this shop.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

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

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.