The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The magic's in the hole!

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

The last of its kind in the country.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.