A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

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

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The striking jade death mask of an ancient Maya king is displayed in a replica tomb in Mexico City.

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

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.