Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

Dozens of bronze sculptures are woven into the landscape along this trail.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.

An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue left over from World War II now stands on the side of the road.