Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

The largest drain hole in the world.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

Originally the home of chewing gum mogul William Wrigely Jr, it is now the official offices of the Tournament of Roses.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

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