A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

People leave coins atop an unusual grave marker in one of Scotland's oldest burial grounds.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A large instrument played by the wind.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.