Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The longest continuously operating Elk's Lodge in the country.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

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

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

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

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

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

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

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