The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

An urban laboratory.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

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

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

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

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

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

A Community Cornerstone.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

"The Star Factory" cranked out Hollywood stars like nobody's business.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.