Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

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

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

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

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

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

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

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

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.