One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Mexican food and folk art.

The world's largest Holstein cow.