One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

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

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

This historic graveyard was partially paved over to create a streetcar line.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.