This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

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

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

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

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.