The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

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

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.