An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

"May the force be with you always."

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.