Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

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

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

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.