This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.