This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

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

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

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

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

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

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

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

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

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