The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A gap in the concrete has been transformed into a miniature playground for the mind.