A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

World's largest Christmas store.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

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

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."