Pizza with a side of fine art.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.