The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

Population: 1.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

The smallest country in the world.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.