A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A newspaper building that made radio history.

"The Star Factory" cranked out Hollywood stars like nobody's business.

From silent movie theater to rock &roll palace and beyond.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

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

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

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.