This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

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

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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