A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

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

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

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

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

This house is a mosaic of tiled artwork sourced from local artists.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The oldest structure in a beachside California city was built to serve eight students.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.