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

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

Behind legendary Meltdown Comics is a marker for an engineered musical roadway of the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Kcymaerxthaere.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

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

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.