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

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

This small oasis of flora and art was created in remembrance of a local auto business owner.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

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.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

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

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.