Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

This ruined folly was originally built to honor a failed American state that would have become "Westsylvania."

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.