Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The smallest country in the world.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.