Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

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

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

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

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.