A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

A royal relic from the time that gambling was accidentally made legal in South Carolina.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

Remote Honduran Islands with a colorful history.