This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

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

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

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

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.