You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

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

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

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

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

The ruins of the movie ranch owned by actor and stuntman Ray "Crash" Corrigan.

Drink a Guinness under the wings of Reagan's retired Air Force One in his presidential library.

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

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

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

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.