Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Oldest building in California still in use.

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

This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.

Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.