Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The final resting place of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and talented actors is on the grounds of a California Mission.

Oldest building in California still in use.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

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

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.