The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

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.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.