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

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

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

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.