With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

A rich history stashed behind an unassuming door in the heart of Gold Country.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.