This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.