The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

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

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.