The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

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

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

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

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

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.