The American Home, Re-imagined.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

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

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.