The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

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

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.